I will forever hate Peter Angelos (and MLB for bowing) for MASN. FOX (and Comcast) have barely been able to negotiate with them about Nats, Os or the channel.
I'm amazed at the value of these baseball TV contracts. Insane cash. It's gotta be way too much for the market to bear, no matter the size. But I'm sure in other cities you wind up with Redskins-like sponsorship of every last little thing. "This pitch sponsored by..." just for those stations to make the nut. Thx, Jay!
Especially with baseball, you have to consider how many games there are. Deadspin's take highlights that MLB actually wants FOX to buy the station after ********ing up and giving it to Angelos from the start. It's crazy to me that Angelos thinks the Nats and Os are worth the same and there's nothing MLB can do.
Oh, it's snowing to beat the band in Zagreb today and somehow they're going on with their UEFA Champions League match.
I've been following the RBNY saga through SBI. Really great comic reading. Henry wants Cooper gone. There is no coach, but the former Asst. GM is handling the "roster" rebuilding. Also, Tony Donuts wants to return to coach. Marquez still is there along with Connor (what's this offside thing again?)Lade. I love it MPF = Metro Perpetual Failure.
To be fair he's been playing VERY GOOD since joining Vasco from Lyon, if you happen to watch Copa Libertadores games he's always been one of the best players on the pitch. If I'm not mistaken I beleive his goal/assist ratio per game at Vasco de Gama is nothing to scoff at. I'd take him at DC for a season or two in a heartbeat, very good player and with Henry in front of him it'll be bad news for MLS defenders.
So there's this fawning, sycophantic garbage that more or less confirms what we all know; that the LA Galaxy are the way, the truth and the light, as far as MLS is concerned. No shit. From another article linked therein: Since I'm apparently too thick to post images anymore, can someone throw up a "Bitch, Please" poster on my behalf?
I don't get too caught up in half cocked rivalry buzz, but I have to wonder if Klein was talking about this year's LA team, or the club in general? The club in general, they can at least have an argument as I believe they have won more league games than us and have a comparable trophy haul. This year's team? No way in hell.
Well, in an absolute sense, we can compare accomplishments over history and argue. In a modern-day sense, though, dwell on this: since we last won MLS Cup, they've won three times. Since we last won a trophy of any kind, they've won two Supporters Shields (back to back) and two MLS Cups (back to back). I don't think there can be a realistic argument against the statement that they're a lot more relevant team than we are these days. Of course, one could try an argument that they bought their success. But their success has depended on players like Omar Gonzalez, Sean Franklin, Juninho, etc. Plenty of teams shut down Donovan and/or Beckham this season; but their rent-boys play in front of a lineup that's well within the cap but still more solid than ours. The solution is to stop whining and build a better team. Hopefully, soon, we will.
I agree. That's why I focused my attention on Klein's statement. These days, they are full-fledged members of MLS 2.0. They might be President of the club. We're working on our membership application.
Comparing MLS CUP, SS, USOC and CONCACAF - it stands as 12 for both, with an almost identical grouping for each. Interamerican Cup is the difference. I bounced from a link at BS to the chart on a blog (I'm having trouble finding it). Why Garber and ******** all don't want to promote this is beyond me - it is because we have no stadium? LOL Just because ********metro can't win to create one, you can't engineer rivalries by wiping the slate clean with NY2 either Donnie.
This is not so much different from when Bruce Arena built the DC United dynasty in the mid-90s: people bought tickets to see Etcheverry, Moreno, and Diaz Arce, but in truth, Pope, Agoos, Williams, Sanneh, et al, made it possible for them to win by doing the defending and other dirty work. Once we attain that level of stability in the back with Jakovic, McD and Kitchen, going forward will be easier for DeRo, Pontius, DeLeon, Najar and TBD striker.
I think what sort of grates on the nerves is that MLS has gone out of its way to build up the NY and LA franchises through the DP rules and a host of other table-tilting rules. Whereas, the first great league dynasty was deliberately broken up for salary cap reasons in the name of competitive balance.
Oh I know. I was there, you don't have to remind me. To expand on that, what gets at me now is that in the last few years I feel the league has even demonstrated it doesn't even need NY or LA to be relevant, yet the MLS HQ still seems to act like this hasn't happened. Don't get me wrong, I see the value of it, but it's not the apparent necessity it might have been once upon a time.
I disagree, the league needs LA and NY. The league doesn't need Chivas, Columbus, Dallas and other clingers on/mistakes.
I think it's good for MLS to have teams in places such as these. Young people are playing soccer all over the US, why shouldn't they be able to support local, or near-local teams? And there should be more second-tier teams to build interest in the sport. That's how Seattle and Portland were able to move up to MLS with an intact fan base developed over the years.
I agree. Think about Kansas City or Columbus that have both brought new attention to the sport in places where there's less competition for media. If the sport is only poseurs from the Pacific NW, NY, LA and us, it wouldn't be much of a league.